Pseudoeurycea gadovii (Dunn, 1926)
Oedipus gadovii Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 437. Holotype: BMNH 1903.9.30.312 by original designation; renumbered BMNH 1946.9.6.41 according to Brame, 1972, Checklist Living & Fossil Salamand. World (Unpubl. MS): 294. Type locality: "Xometla, at 8,500 feet altitude on Mt. Orizaba, [Veracruz,] Mexico".
Bolitoglossa gadovii — Taylor, 1941, Herpetologica, 2: 58.
Pseudoeurycea gadovii — Taylor, 1944, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 209.
English Names
Gadow's False Brook Salamander (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 14; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 33).
Gadow's Salamander (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 33).
Distribution
Pine-oak forest up to above tree line in bunch grass habitats on Mounts Orizaba and Malinche in Puebla and on the Puebla-Tlaxcala border, Mexico, 2800 to 5000 m elevation.
Comment
Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 212, provided a brief account, photograph, and map, and considered it to be in the Pseudoeurycea gadovii group. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 587.
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